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Empire of Eternity: Black Sun - A Space Opera of Immortality, Time Travel, and Imperial Intrigue (Book 1 of the Thorn Empire Saga)
Paperback
Series: Thorn Empire Saga, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 16 2026
Pages: 528
Weight: 1.39
Height: 1.31 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the Thorn Empire, death isn't fate - it's a policy.
Immortality is infrastructure. Time is negotiable.
Until the Empire's rhythm begins to flicker... and something answers from the edge of the map.
The Thorn dynasty built a Type-III civilization on predictability: Dyson swarms, dark wells, perfect logistics, and an Imperial Pulse that keeps thousands of worlds in sync. The center of it all is Asterion - a composed capital where archives are weapons and stability is manufactured.
When the Galactic Council convenes, it isn't to vote on war - it's to respond to an anomaly that doesn't behave like noise, failure, or sabotage. It behaves like structure.
Emperor Elias Thorn and his daughter Kyra join a fragile alliance of fleet command, chronophysics, and external observers to investigate the Empire's blind spots - where micro-latency turns into rumor, rumor into secession, and truth becomes a battlefront.
Beyond the periphery lies White Space - a void revealed by nothingness. And behind it: the Black Sun - not a data point, but a boundary that seems to read the ones who dare to observe it.
Empire of Eternity: Black Sun is the opening of a sweeping science-fiction saga about power, immortality, time travel - and the price of a civilization that refuses to end.
Perfect for readers who enjoy:
Space Opera & Galactic Empires
Military Sci-Fi (fleets, escalation, strategy)
Time-Travel Risk / Timeline Chaos
Political intrigue, propaganda wars, and cosmic anomalies
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